Interview with Ellen LaConte

SUBHEAD: Eco-economies are local and regional, place-based, functionally self-reliant, interdependent, mutually supportive, regenerative, restorative and resilient.By Robert Jensen on 8 March 2011 in Energy Bulletin - (http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-03-08/listening-life-it%E2%80%99s-too-late-interview-ellen-laconte)Image above: "Mother Earth" by Stephen Alcorn (2005). From (http:/

Geopolitics Rule

SUBHEAD: We must reinvent democracy in a way that embraces the concept of less at at all levels.By Steve Ludlum on 21 February 2011 in Economic Undertow -(http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/02/geopolitics-rule.html)Image above: "Until Libya is Free" photo. From original article.One of the big ideas here at the Undertow is that the economic price limit or upper bound for crude oil is a

Lessons on Living

SUBHEAD: Acknowledging that something is finite is the way to determine how to best use that thing.By Kathy Cumbee on 9 January 2011 in Nature Bats Last -(http://guymcpherson.com/2011/01/lessons-on-living)Image above: Shana and poor Yorick at Halloween in Seattle, WA. From (http://www.flickr.com/photos/archiemcphee/1444552219).Lesson 1 Forty-six years ago I began to volunteer in a nursing home.